Data Indicates Poverty Not Race is the Cause of High Crime Rates
Source

For the period
2008–12— Persons in poor households at or below the Federal
Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the
rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income
households (16.9 per 1,000). Persons in poor households had ahigher rate of violence involving a firearm (3.5/1,000)
compared to persons above the FPL (0.8–2.5 per 1,000). The overall
pattern of poor persons having the highest rates of violent
victimization was consistent for
both whites and blacks

.However, the rate of violent victimization for Hispanics
did not vary across poverty levels.PoorHispanics
(25.3 per 1,000) had lower rates of violence compared to poor
whites (46.4 per 1,000) and poor blacks (43.4 per 1,000). Poor persons
living in urban areas (43.9 per 1,000) had violent victimization rates
similar to poor persons living in rural areas (38.8 per 1,000). Poor
urban blacks (51.3/1,000) had rates
of violence similar to poor urban whites (56.4 per 1,000).

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This stunning change in the racial makeup of the female inmate population
mirrors and may well be at least partially caused by changes on other
indicators of economic and physical well-being. Over recent decades, life
expectancy among women without a college education has increased
for
blacks but decreased for whitesProblems with alcohol — the drug most closely linked to arrests, violence
and incarceration — areup
among white women but down among black women.
White woman have also been disproportionately affected by the
methamphetamine and prescription opioid epidemics, both of which raise the
risk of contact with the criminal justice system.

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Proportion of Sentenced Drug-Law Offenders
Among Total Sentenced Prisoners in Europe

17.6%

17.6%

17.6%

18.5%

Highest Proportion of
Drug-Law Offenders

Malta

32.5%

-

53.4%

-

Greece

50.6%

-

-

52.3%

Italy

33.5%

36.1%

36.9%

38.4%

Luxembourg

31.9%

44.6%

38.7%

36.1%

Lowest Proportion of Drug-Law
Offenders

Lithuania

4.6%

6.5%

8.4%

1.0%

Hungary

1.9%

2.5%

2.6%

3.1%

Romania

2.5%

4.0%

4.2%

4.3%

Proportion of Sentenced Drug-Law Offenders
Among Total Prisoners in Europe4 (Sentenced and Pre-Trial)

12.5%

12.1%

12.5%

13.9%

Highest Proportions of
Drug-Law Offenders

Greece

37.3%

-

-

36.0%

Luxembourg

19.8%

26.4%

21.9%

20.7%

Sweden

18.4%

24.1%

22.9%

22.1%

Lowest Proportions of
Drug-Offenders

Hungary

1.4%

1.7%

1.8%

2.1%

Romania

1.9%

3.6%

3.6%

3.6%

Slovakia

2.3%

-

5.1%

4.6%

Notes:
(1) Total number of prisoners (pre-trial and sentenced prisoners) on 1
September.
(2) In 2010, data for Belgium and England and Wales concern 2009.
(3) In 2010, data for Austria, Belgium and England and Wales concern 2009.
Data missing for other years have been interpolated from adjacent years.
(4) ‘Europe’ refers to the weighted average for EU-27 (excluding Austria
and Poland).
(5) The proportion of sentenced drug-law offenders among the total
sentenced prisoners on 1 September.
*27 is from EU-27, according to the European Commission's Eurostat this
simply refers to the 27-member EU.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary...

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Proportion of Sentenced Drug-Law Offenders
Among Total Sentenced Prisoners in Europe

17.6%

17.6%

17.6%

18.5%

Highest Proportion of
Drug-Law Offenders

Malta

32.5%

-

53.4%

-

Greece

50.6%

-

-

52.3%

Italy

33.5%

36.1%

36.9%

38.4%

Luxembourg

31.9%

44.6%

38.7%

36.1%

Lowest Proportion of Drug-Law
Offenders

Lithuania

4.6%

6.5%

8.4%

1.0%

Hungary

1.9%

2.5%

2.6%

3.1%

Romania

2.5%

4.0%

4.2%

4.3%

Proportion of Sentenced Drug-Law Offenders
Among Total Prisoners in Europe4 (Sentenced and Pre-Trial)

12.5%

12.1%

12.5%

13.9%

Highest Proportions of
Drug-Law Offenders

Greece

37.3%

-

-

36.0%

Luxembourg

19.8%

26.4%

21.9%

20.7%

Sweden

18.4%

24.1%

22.9%

22.1%

Lowest Proportions of
Drug-Offenders

Hungary

1.4%

1.7%

1.8%

2.1%

Romania

1.9%

3.6%

3.6%

3.6%

Slovakia

2.3%

-

5.1%

4.6%

Notes:
(1) Total number of prisoners (pre-trial and sentenced prisoners) on 1
September.
(2) In 2010, data for Belgium and England and Wales concern 2009.
(3) In 2010, data for Austria, Belgium and England and Wales concern 2009.
Data missing for other years have been interpolated from adjacent years.
(4) ‘Europe’ refers to the weighted average for EU-27 (excluding Austria
and Poland).
(5) The proportion of sentenced drug-law offenders among the total
sentenced prisoners on 1 September.
*27 is from EU-27, according to the European Commission's Eurostat this
simply refers to the 27-member EU.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary...

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/EU#sthash.0I0GQby0.dpuf